knobbed

Etymology

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of knob

adj

  1. Having a knob or knobs.
    a knobbed chromosome
    1774, Oliver Goldsmith, An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature, London: J. Nourse, Volume 4, Chapter 11, The Camelopard, pp. 299-300, No animal, either from its disposition, or its formation, seems less fitted for a state of natural hostility; its horns are blunt, and even knobbed at the ends; its teeth are made entirely for vegetable pasture […]
    The chairs […] were railed with white bars across the back and knobbed with gold; neither the railings nor the knobs invited to ease. 1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 8, in Cranford
    For it's been a hard life, thought Mrs. Dempster. What hadn’t she given to it? Roses; figure; her feet too. (She drew the knobbed lumps beneath her skirt.) 1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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